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As a member of the MIAA and NCAA Division III associations, Hope College sponsors
22 varsity sports for men and women. The college is home to the 2014 NCAA Division
III National Championship women’s volleyball team.

Hope Takes Early Lead in MIAA Commissioner's Cup Standings

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Hope College has taken a commanding lead in a bid to win the Commissioner's Cup of
the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) for a 12th consecutive year.

Hope College has taken a commanding lead in a bid to win the Commissioner's Cup of
the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) for a 12th consecutive year.

The Commissioner's Cup is awarded to the MIAA-member college with the best cumulative
performance in the league's 18 sports for men and women.

Thru the eight sports sponsored in the fall, Hope has built a 22-point advantage in
the Cup standings. Hope tops the standings in both men's and women's sports with a
cumulative total of 103 points followed by Calvin 81, Adrian 64, Alma 58, Trine 55,
Albion 48, Olivet 40 and Kalamazoo 40.

Hope teams finished first or second in seven of the eight fall sports. Championships
were won in men's golf and women's cross country. Hope finished in second place in
men's cross country, football, men's soccer, women's golf, and volleyball. The women's
soccer team tied for fourth.

New this year is a consistent policy for determining who will represent the MIAA in
NCAA championships. Regular season competition determines the league champion while
a season-ending tournament determines who receives the MIAA's automatic bid to NCAA
play. There were five fall sports (men's and women's soccer, men's and women's golf
and volleyball) that had the oppornuity to play in a qualifying tournament with Hope
teams qualifying for all five, the only member school to achieve that fete. Hope's
volleyball and men's soccer teams advanced to their respective NCAA tournaments. Opportunities
to qualify in men's and women's golf will occur next spring.

Hope has won a league leading 33 Commissioner's Cup since the award was initiated
in 1934-35, including 26 of the last 32 years. The current string started in 2000-01.